Re: HELP: Vocabulary
| From: | Dirk Elzinga <dirk_elzinga@...> |
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| Date: | Wednesday, August 18, 2004, 19:11 |
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On Aug 17, 2004, at 8:00 AM, Tim May wrote:
> Incidentally, 'to continuously attempt to crush with the teeth'
> doesn't sound totally unworkable to me - I can certainly imagine
> certain American languages expressing such a thing with a verbal root
> "crush", with an instrumental affix meaning "with the teeth", and
> marked for repetitive aspect.
Shoshoni (Goshute dialect):
ketsokkwaihpenni ['k1Dok"k_wai"p\1nni]
ke- tsokkwai -hpenni
with.teeth- mash -FREQ
Dirk
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Dirk Elzinga
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"Speech is human, silence is divine, yet also brutish and dead;
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